Gazan smugglers going underground to bring in KFC

A smuggler carries food from Kentucky Fried Chicken to be delivered through an underground tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt

Finger lickin’ good it may be, but this is taking things a little too far.

Some residents of Gaza have taken to smuggling in fried chicken and all the fixin’s from neighboring Egypt through an elaborate process involving wire transfers and tunnels. I’m not even kidding, I read this on the internets.

The New York Times reported today that an enterprising young entrepreneur named Khalil Efrangi has made four of these runs totally about 100 meals, saying “it’s our right to enjoy that taste the other people all over the world enjoy.”

Border crossings are tightly controlled by Israel and Egypt by a so-called blockade that has been in place since 2007. Getting a bucket original recipe is hardly the most pressing issue for most Gazans, but as Egrangi puts it, “I accepted this challenge to prove that Gazans can be resilient despite the restrictions.”